Draper Farm Historic Site

Circa 4000BC

Natives of this area made tools from red felsite rock.

1669-1771

The Allen, Capron and Mann families owned this property. The Mann family burial ground still remains close by.

1772

Stephan Draper built a homestead and farmed fifty acres of ...

Van Den Corput's Georgia Battery

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Van Den Corput's Georgia Battery

4-12 Pdr. Napoleons.

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Stevenson's Division, Breckinridge's Corps.

Capt. Max. Van Den Corput, Commanding.

1st Lieut. M.L. McWhorter,

2d Lieut. W.S. Hoge,

2d Lieut. J.E. Stilwell,

2d Lieut. W.A. Russell.

Nov. 25, 1863, 2 P.M.

The Battery ...

De Land Chemical Co.

Site of Saleratus Works established 1852 by the De Land family. The product which sold internationally helped develop Fairport.

Marker is on North Main Street (New York Route 250) just south of Liftbridge Lane E., on the left when traveling ...

Col. Charles De Witt

Born       1727   ---   Died     Aug. 27, 1787

Patriot Statesman and Leader in the Revolution

Member Colonial Assembly   1768–75

Provincial Convention   1775   Provincial Congress   1778–7

First Convention of State of ...

Botetourt County / Bedford County

Area 548 Square Miles / Area 791 Square Miles

Botetourt County. Formed in 1769 from Augusta, and named for Lord Botetourt, Governor of Virginia, 1768–1770. Buchanan was the western terminus of the noted James River and Kanawha Canal.

Bedford County. Formed ...

Dade County

Often called the “State of Dade,” because, as legend has it, the county seceded from the Union ahead of Georgia, and only returned to the Union July 4, 1945.

Created December 25, 1837, and named for Major Francis Langhorne Dade, killed ...

Richards Building

1900

Newspaper & commercial

office building of

Mr. Joseph Ralph Richards

attorney, author,

businessman & historian

Marker is on Main Street near 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Actual Site of Norman No. 1

Opening Well of the Mid-Continent Field

From this discovery well the field spread first west then south to the Gulf of Mexico. The Norman No. 1 was dirlled in November 1892 by O L Bloom of Independence for William Mills of ...

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr.

1910 - 1972

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr. was given the nickname of "Bull" while in school. He was known as such thereafter, the name fitting his large physical frame and deep, commanding voice. Hancock inherited responsibility for Claiborne Farm in Paris, ...

"Morgan Acres"

Two miles west is the site of the first house in present West Virginia. It was built by Col. Morgan Morgan who came from Delaware in 1726. It was destroyed and the one now there was built in 1800 by ...